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General
This small, attractive village is situated a few hundred metres from the A1(M) motorway and about one and a half kilometres west of Welwyn Garden City.
The village is clustered around the village green with the houses being much in demand. The green itself is well used with a number of events being staged there during the year. There is only one pub, The Waggonners, located on the edge of the village, down the lane by the motorway.
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Village Green
On the night of November 5th 1930 a commercial traveller named Albert Rouse decided he could no longer cope with his lifestyle. A married man, handsome, with a facile tongue it is reckoned he effectively seduced over eighty women. That night was the night when Albert would die, or at least somebody would die in his place. He kidnapped a tramp and took him up to Northamptonshire where he murdered the man, placed the body in his car and set it on fire. He hoped that the tramp would be mistaken for him and he intended to claim the insurance money. Unfortunately the identity disk that he was supposed to attach to the tramps body was left in his attaché case in the car. He had planned to walk through Northampton and catch a train to Scotland but as he left the murder scene he met two men and was so shocked he changed his plans and fled to Wales. Albert was caught, tried and executed at Bedford Prison.
Albert’s car has been seen since the murder. At Ayot Green the car, registration number MU 1468, suddenly appears from nowhere and parks beneath the trees on the green before suddenly vanishing. It was here, by the green, that he had been seen numerous times in the past, ‘entertaining’ the women who he had seduced.
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